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Dimension of Miracles

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
John Hodgman

Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
1,218

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
1,120

Story

4 out of 5 stars
1,121

Dimension of Miracles is a satirical science fiction novel first published by Dell in 1968. It's about Tom Carmody, a New Yorker who, thanks to a computer error, wins the main prize in the Intergalactic Sweepstakes. Tom claims his prize before the error is discovered and is allowed to keep it. However, since Tom is a human from Earth without galactic status and no space traveling experience, he has no homing instinct that can guide him back to Earth once his odyssey begins - and the galactic lottery organizers cannot transport him home.

Untouched by Human Hands consists of 13 stories of beings who dwell on the strange borders of reality. Some of these stories tell of people you know or of events that might happen - but haven't yet. Some will take you to the furthermost reaches of the sky and to planets whose names are unknown this side of Arcturus. And some - perhaps the richest and most memorable of these stories - open into the interior of strange minds to reveal the reflection of ourselves.

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The 10th Victim

Victim, Book 1

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Mark Boyett

Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
12

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
12

Story

4 out of 5 stars
11

It's the 21st Century and the ugliness of war no longer exists, except on a very personal level. Nowadays, people like Marcello Polletti, seller of Roman sunsets, and Caroline Meredith, lithe, beautiful, blonde, and backed by corporate sponsors and the Roy Bell Dancers, hunt, chase, and kill each other for sport and for the entertainment of the masses - until something oddly like personal human feelings pops up to confuse the players and up the stakes...as each of them seeks to kill their 10th victim and rise in the ranks of the hunters.

Ready for a story? Here's a selection of some of the finest science fiction shorts of recent years, including stories from Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, Robert Sheckley, Terry Bisson, Avram Davidson, and Philip K. Dick.

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Mindswap

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Tom Weiner

Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
72

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
55

Story

4 out of 5 stars
56

Interstellar travel to alien worlds is too expensive for Marvin, a college student in need of a good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford: a mind swap, in which his consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien life-form. Unfortunately, Marvin finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal—a body that he has to vacate, fast.

Launch your imagination and break the bonds of time and space with radio's highly acclaimed science-fiction anthology X Minus One! Produced in cooperation with science fiction magazines of the day, the series featured provocative stories by the genre's top genre authors. Ray Bradbury, Ernest Kinoy, Robert Sheckley, and more helped Americans of the 1950s look to the future. Dramatized with an atmosphere of excitement, top radio voices like Raymond Edward Johnson, Les Damon, Staats Cotsworth, Ruby Dee, Mandel Kramer, Joe DeSantis, and Bill Lipton gave voice to their visionary tales.

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The Status Civilization

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Frank Harrison

Length: 5 hrs

Unabridged

Overall

0 out of 5 stars
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0 out of 5 stars
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"The Status Civilization" is a science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley. The protagonist is Will Barrent, who finds himself, without memory of any crime, or, indeed, of his previous life, being shipped across space to the planet Omega. Omega, used to imprison extreme offenders, has a hierarchical society of extreme brutality, where the only way to advance (and avoid dying) is to commit an endless series of crimes. The average life expectancy from time of arrival on Omega is three years.

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Immortality, Inc.

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Bronson Pinchot

Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
163

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
155

Story

4 out of 5 stars
155

Want to be immortal? You can be in AD 2110. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Corporation and hook yourself up to the Machine. There’s nothing to fear. That is, if it happens to be working right, and if nobody slips another mind into your body when you’re not looking, and if you’re not on a poltergeist hatelist.

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The Game of X

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Oliver Wyman

Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
14

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
14

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
13

All secret agents need to look out for William Nye, now known as Agent X. His recruitment was simple and his legend is brilliant but un-earned. Somehow, he thinks he's the best there is and we all know how pride goeth before a fall. The master of SF hilarity and biting social satire creates a spy world that has gathered praise from the greats of the genre.

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X Minus One: Protection (March 20, 1957)

By:
Robert Sheckley,
Ernest Kinoy - adaptation

Narrated by:
Fred Collins

Length: 22 mins

Original Recording

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

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X Minus One: The Lifeboat Mutiny (September 11, 1956)

By:
Robert Sheckley,
Ernest Kinoy - adaptation

Narrated by:
Fred Collins

Length: 28 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4.5 out of 5 stars
3

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
2

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
2

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

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X Minus One: Something for Nothing (April 10, 1957)

By:
Robert Sheckley,
Ernest Kinoy - adaptation

Narrated by:
Fred Collins

Length: 21 mins

Original Recording

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

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X Minus One: Early Model (July 11, 1957)

By:
Robert Sheckley,
Ernest Kinoy - adaptation

Narrated by:
Fred Collins

Length: 22 mins

Original Recording

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
1

Performance

5 out of 5 stars
1

Story

5 out of 5 stars
1

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

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Victim Prime

Victim, Book 2

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Mark Boyett

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Unabridged

Overall

5 out of 5 stars
8

Performance

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

Story

4.5 out of 5 stars
7

In 2092, the world's ecology is in ruins, drought and famine are widespread and survival is a never-ending challenge. Harold Erdman leaves his dying community with one goal, to make his way to Esmeralda, an island paradise run by the Huntworld Corporation which has turned public murder, among willing competitors, into a thriving and lucrative business. Can he survive the journey and then the many rounds of deadly competition on his way to the Big Payoff.

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X Minus One

The Native Problem (Dramatized)

By:
Robert Sheckley

Length: 19 mins

Original Recording

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
16

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
10

Story

3.5 out of 5 stars
10

On a distant planet, a marooned man is joyous to see a ship landing. But what does the crew make of him? Based on a story by Robert Sheckley, this episode of X Minus One originally aired on September 26, 1957.

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The Status Civilization

By:
Robert Sheckley

Narrated by:
Mark Douglas Nelson

Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
42

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
33

Story

4 out of 5 stars
33

Will Barrent has no memory of the murder for which he was convicted. He will now have to live his life sentence on the prison planet Omega. The few that survive there do it by committing crimes. And the more adept the planet inmates are at higher crime, the more they climb their bizzare anti-social ladder. They all must live in a society where drug addiction is mandatory, as is the worship of the Dark One.

Robert Sheckley, master of the science-fiction short-story form, created numerous tales of dark humor. He had an entertaining gift for looking at society with a warped mirror, enabling us to see ourselves in a clearer reflection.